“..Living in a small town and being able to field dress a moose does not make Palin a populist..
..no matter how much pundits want to pretend it does.
It was not my intention to be writing about Sarah Palin, since everyone with a laptop, a No. 2 pencil or a red crayon seems to be covering that beat.
But then came the pundits:
“She’s a populist,” gushed Karl Rove on Fox TV.
Weird, since this right-wing political slime and corporate whore loathes, demonizes, mocks, fears and tries to destroy real populists.
“Perfect populist pitch,” beamed CBS analyst Jeff Greenfield right after Palin’s big speech at the GOP fawnfest in St. Paul.
In his less infatuated moments, Greenfield surely must realize how ludicrous his comment was, since once, long ago, he co-authored a book that had “populist” in the title, so he has at least had a brush with the authentic people’s movement that the term encapsulates.
So they made me do it.
Karl, Jeff and other pundits who are rushing to place the gleaming crown of populism atop the head of this shameless corporate servant — they are the ones who have driven me to write about Palin.
Someone has to nail the media establishment for its willing perversion of language, American history and the substance of today’s genuine populism.
Palin might be popular, she might be able to field dress a moose, she might live in a small town, she might enjoy delivering “news flashes” to media elites, she might even become vice president —
– but none of this makes her a populist.
To the contrary, she is to populism what bear is to beer..only not as close..”
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